Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Monday, February 11th, 2013
Update: I've used exactly the same method to take it straight up to 6.0.5 following the security announcements http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2013/5/1/security-update-two-major-vulnerabilities-found
Please note: my method of upgrade might not suit your site - e.g. if you've got lots of custom configurations and plugins installed then this might not work. As always, test it on ...
Posted in Umbraco, Windows | 3 Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
I've had an issue with MS Project where I mimimise the window within project of my active project and then no matter what I do with views or zoom I can't seem to restore it.
Not found the root of the problem but you can restore your precious project plan via ...
Posted in MS Project, VBA, Windows | 6 Comments »
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Often I get asked to design things which require displaying of products and I don't yet have the images. I've written a script to do just that. If you're not a PHP coder and don't want to tweak the code and run it yourself bug just want a zip with 100 ...
Posted in PHP, Windows | No Comments »
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Apparently MS Project 2010 fixes this issue but I've often wanted to copy the tasks complete with the indenting to Excel to provide a quick and dirty report for non-project users.
When you use copy and paste you loose the formatting - grrr! Here is a quick and dirty solution.
Insert column ...
Posted in MS Project, Windows | No Comments »
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
I'm currently building a ticketing / holiday booking application in my spare time in PHP / MySQL. When I started in PHP I used Linux for my development platform because my laptop ran, the rather terrible, Windows Vista. I've since upgraded to Windows 7 and find myself using this instead ...
Posted in PHP, Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
I had a requirement to plot the number of bugs raised on each day on a graph to show how many are raised. The bugs were stored in the very wonderful BugTracker.NET . The problem was I had a list of bugs with a date time.
ID
MIN(dateUpdated)
2
11/04/2011 09:10
4
12/04/2011 16:48
14
18/04/2011 21:03
15
20/04/2011 07:14
16
20/04/2011 ...
Posted in SQL SERVER, Windows | No Comments »
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Is it just me?? I've searched the web a lot and can't find anybody complaining about this - it drives me mad on a daily basis as I work with an XML based webservice that loves spitting out reams of the stuff.
I'd love to hear if anybody else suffers ...
Posted in Windows | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
I like Windows 7 – there I’ve said – happy now? I normally reserve judgement on new Windows OSs until the first service pack. Vista was a big heap of cack and though I see Windows 7 as only an upgrade (read as 'fix') of Vista it does look like ...
Posted in Windows | No Comments »
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
This was easier in 2000. This annoyed me for ages but not enough to actually look into why I could no longer filter by Database (well not obviously!).
The trick is to click the "Events Selection" on the "Trace Properties" when you create a new trace, and check the "Show all ...
Posted in SQL SERVER, Windows | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Occassionally I need a quick and dirty look at what a string will look like in various fonts.
I use this (quite hacky) VBA macro. Be warned it can take a while to run on older systems - SAVE YOUR OPEN WORD DOCS FIRST!
Sub SampleFonts()
' Output a text string in each ...
Posted in VBA, Windows | 2 Comments »
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